Carmen Ghia

The Meg C Jewelry Gallery of Lexington, Kentucky introduced a limited line of Kentucky-centric gold-plated necklaces and earrings this summer (recently touted for Christmas!) – each shiny bauble dangling with gen-u-ine Kentucky Fried Chicken bones. That’s right, somebody else ate ’em, and now, you can wear ’em – all done in the best of taste, of course.

All the meat, gristle, cartilage, etc. was picked clean from KFC wings, which were then washed, dried, sealed with varnish and conductive paint, copper-electroformed, and then electroplated with 14k gold. Small-bone necklaces go for $130 (large, $160), and earrings for $200 a pair — and according to Meg C, they’ll accessorize anything from jeans to a lady’s best little black dress, especially for going to a fancy chicken dinner – the kind catered by the bucket-load.